The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the release of Chrome 12 to the Beta Channel for all platforms. Chrome 12.0.742.30 includes a number of new features and updates, including:

Hardware accelerated 3D CSS

New Safe Browsing protection against downloading malicious files

Ability to delete Flash cookies from inside Chrome

Launch Apps by name from the Omnibox

Integrated Sync into new settings pages

Improved screen reader support

New warning when hitting Command-Q on Mac

Removal of Google Gears

Find out more about Chrome 12 at the official Chrome Blog. The full list of changes is available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching to the Beta channel? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.Jason KerseyGoogle Chrome

Now everytime that chrome is not in focus and I open a new chrome window, chrome won't take focus back... window just starts minimized... this is one of the reasons why I went back to using beta from developer... This is not when using CTRL + N... this is opening a new window from the quick launch bar or the desktop icon

This bug needs to get fixed... If I open a new chrome window it should have focus right away and be ready to type a new URL...

What the hell happend? Just let 12.0.742.30 install and qurouis as I am, gave html5test.com a go. I weas expecting that this vversion would score better than 11.x.x.x (293 points), but, WTF, it only scored 291points.

ever since the last dev before this recent one12.0.742.30 dev-mmy googlechrome eventually fails to check for updates in the about dialog box (windowsxp 32bit). i had to manually close whole googlechrome and fetch the dev-channel manual .exe installer from the googlechrome page and install the dev version of 12.0.742.16 i think, and then it upraded itself via the about dialogbox to the current dev: 12.0.742.30

right now the about dialogbox again fails with error 3, no update servers available. everything else is fine browsing surfing downloading. i am not using any proxy whatsoever.

what is wrong with googlechrome lately? its too buggy in fetching the updates via its builtin mechanism. this sucks :(

it was error 3 updateserver not available with the former 12. dev build as well.

what on googleearth is going on here? please look into this and fix. thanks.

@Jason Kersey Thank you for the hint.I think you should reconsider putting the Warn Before Quitting option in the application menu on Mac.As a Mac user, this is the last place I would have looked for it, as I can not think of one other application that puts an item there that can be toggled.I think a better place would be to put it into chrome://settings/browser Why don't you show a dialog that allows the user to choose to turn the feature on the first time he presses CMD+Q?

For people wondering why Chrome 12 gets 2 less points than Chrome 11 in HTML5 test, this is because WebKit has removed support for the onformchange and onforminput events, following the change in HTML5 specification (http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5927&to=5928).

mabuk: i dont have norton. i use avg free antivirus 2011. i havent had these error 3 and update errors in about dialogbox now for a long time. whats happening with googlechrome? is is way to bugged. :((((((

@Will: you can still activate Print Preview by typing about:flags in the address bar, then find the Print Preview feature, enable it and restart Chrome 12 beta.

I have to admit that Print Preview is nearly complete but not yet finalized (nor perfect) in Chrome 12 beta AND not even mentioned in this Chrome 12 beta blog. But at least Print Preview in Chrome 12 beta works to some extent, even though it's still experimental.

@snozwoz: like I said in my previous comment with will, print preview in chrome 12 is there but you just have to enable it from the "Experiments" tab when you type "about:flags" in Chrome's address bar.

they just don't want to finish it in chrome 12 but print preview is nearly working in version 12.